Verdi: Rigoletto // Available to stream for free // Opernhaus Zürich

Opera and ballet at home – Accentus Music and the Opernhaus Zürich offer the audience an opportunity to participate in cultural and music even in times of the Covid-19 pandemic and social distancing. Between March 27 and June 28, 2020, the Accentus Music recordings of opera and ballet performances are available to stream in Switzerland on the opera house’s website free of charge.

At the court of the Duke of Mantua glittering celebrations are happening. But the society that amuses itself there knows no more values and amuses itself out of deadly boredom. The jester Rigoletto is the most cynical jester of all. He wants only to protect his daughter Gilda from the depraved world. He forbids her everything – but the young woman goes her way anyway.

With this production, director Tatjana Gürbaca has created a staging that is as scenically reduced as it is expressive and visually powerful, which has been acclaimed by the audience and press alike. At the podium of the Philharmonia Zürich is Fabio Luisi, General Music Director of Opernhaus Zürich and one of the world’s leading interpreters of the Italian opera repertoire.